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ALLEN COHEN Posted October 02, 2017 20:05 Not planned

I am using 2014.5 on a Mac. Up until a few weeks ago (after I upgraded from El Capitan to Sierra) a document would always open in the view and size which I had last used for it. Now, however, every document opens at 100%, which is too small for my monitor, no matter what size I previously had it. So I have to change every document view size when I open it. This is not a horrible problem, but it adds time--if I am working on multiple parts, it adds quite a lot of time. I see nothing in Prefs that affects this. I would like documents to open, as they used to, in the last view size used.

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MM_MICHAEL JOHNSON November 30, 2017 22:09

Hi Allen:

The preference structure of window states changed with Sierra. This is a known issue that we addressed in Finale v25. We do not plan to address the defect in 2014.5.

Cheers,
Michael Johnson
VP, Professional Notation
MakeMusic

George Mohammed Posted October 02, 2017 20:14

I'm on Windows, but I assume it should be the same or similar:

In Preferences > New > New Document Windows > View Percent: Change to what suits you.

ALLEN COHEN Posted October 02, 2017 20:27

Dear George, Thank you, but you don't seem to have read my post carefully. As I said, it's not a problem with new documents, but with documents I've been using already (sometimes for years). And of course I can change the percentage manually, but previously I didn't need to; Finale opened the document in the same view percentage I had last used. This results in a waste of my time--sometimes, with big scores and multiple parts, a lot of time.

George Mohammed Posted October 02, 2017 20:40

It's a bit misleading but this affects any document you open. You can set shortcut percentages from the View Preference as well.

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